Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 108
I have given you all the attributes which I possess myself, and your courage never fails you except in this one instance.”
Who acts: I, courage · What happens: give, possess, not fail · To what, where: attributes, you
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, courage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 given | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 given | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 attributes | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 attributes | det |
| 7 | attributes | attribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 given | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 possess | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 possess | nsubj |
| 10 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 attributes | acl:relcl |
| 11 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 possess | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fails | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fails | cc |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 courage | nmod:poss |
| 15 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fails | nsubj |
| 16 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 17 fails | advmod |
| 17 | fails | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | conj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 fails | obj |
| 19 | except | except | ADP | _ | 23 instance | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 instance | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 instance | det |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 instance | nummod |
| 23 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fails | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present · perfect | I | all attributes | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient attribute=Theme | |||
| 2 | possess | present | I | all attributes | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not fail | present | your courage | you | except this one instance | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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